The European Commission wants 70 percent of all adults in the EU to get the coronavirus jab by the summer.
At this point, that goal is wildly off. If the current pace of vaccination persists, the bloc as a whole would reach only 15 percent by the end of September. Based on the average of the past week, the bloc would have to ramp up vaccination by a factor of five to hit its target.
The vaccination goal is part of a list of non-binding recommendations from the Commission. Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides described this target on Tuesday as "ambitious," but the Commission has resisted offering a specific date for the summer cut-off. A Commission official told POLITICO that they meant the end of the summer, so September 22 has been used for the calculations in this article.
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